Jonah 2:1-6 ▼

1 And Jonas prayed to the Lord his God out of the belly of the whale,

2 and said, I cried in my affliction to the Lord my God, and he hearkened to me, even to my cry out of the belly of hell: thou heardest my voice.

3 Thou didst cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and the floods compassed me: all thy billows and thy waves have passed upon me.

4 And I said, I am cast out of thy presence: shall I indeed look again toward thy holy temple?

5 Water was poured around me to the soul: the lowest deep compassed me, my head went down

6 to the clefts of the mountains; I went down into the earth, whose bars are the everlasting barriers: yet, O Lord my God, let my ruined life be restored.